Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics

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Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics is an ambitious and challenging book that addresses themes of fundamental importance to ethics. It argues that, while we ineluctably pursue the good, we must also ineluctably fail to achieve it. * James Kirwan, Professor of Cross-Cultural Studies, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan * Michael Steinmann's Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics represents a daring intervention in contemporary moral philosophy. Through his powerful argument that all moral theories are destined to fail because of the dialectics they inevitably fall into, Steinmann calls for a new, original approach to the practice of moral philosophy itself. * Theodore George, Professor of Philosophy and Presidential Impact Fellow, Texas A&M University, USA * In Reframing Ethics through Dialectics: A New Conception of the Moral Good, Michael Steinmann offers a novel and well-argued defense of the relevance of the absolute good to contemporary debates in ethics. Steinmann reframes a quite old conception in a novel and interesting way. The idea of the good becomes the basis, as it was for Plato and for Hegel, for resolving the fundamental tensions and seeming contradictions between alternative conceptions of morals. * Pierre Keller, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, US *